Yet another thread!

Nothing in life happens in vain. Every incident, event, book or coincidence has meaning. Every person who crosses our path or lands in our life does so for a reason. I’ve always carried this belief and looked for the meaning in everything. It’s like solving a puzzle and the final key unlocked comes with an Aha moment!

Have you ever bought a book, only to read it years later? And when you finally read it, you’d think to yourself “what a timing”?

This thought was prompted by a recent incident that made me think ‘why? Did this thing really need to happen to me now? As we’d say it in Arabic “ma kan fee da3i abadan!”

And I’m still trying to find the ‘Aha’ in the moment, which hasn’t come yet. I hope it would soon because my mind is still at work as to what is it that caused this incident to shake my system unnecessarily?

I remember when both my parents were diagnosed with cancer within days from each other I thought to myself there must be a good reason behind this cruel turn of events! What are the odds that a very young and extremely healthy loving couple would receive such shocking news in the same week? It took years for me to figure it out and when I did I found peace. But we don’t always find the peace because not everything that happens to us comes with an explanation. Some things remain a mystery.

But I think whether or not we find the reason it’s very important for us to pay attention to everything that happens to us and around us.  And when we do, we find ourselves drawing an invisible thread that connects all our life coincidences, leading us to an amazing story to tell our children and grandchildren.

Suddenly what you’ve originally perceived as negative meaningless circumstances, become significant synchronicities that were bound to happen to shape the person you are today.

This awareness only happens when you pay attention. I’m not trying to preach what may be obvious to many. I’m just thinking out loud in the hope of finding meaning behind the most recent thread that found its place in my hand waiting to be connected to the rest of the details of my story.

When the reason is unveiled I promise to share it in this blog!